[pianotech] Steinway A Bass String Rescaling

[BobDavis88 at aol.com]

I guess I didn't understand you. I don't deny that correct scaling is  
important. I was just saying that in our experience the prowess of the  winder 
was very important too. By the "big houses" I meant specifically Schaff  and 
Mapes, as opposed to the smaller independents. 
 
BD
 
In a message dated 5/23/2009 1:36:22 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes:

Not sure what you mean by the big houses.   
Schaff and  Mapes, as opposed to the small independents, like Arledge, 
Grandt, GC, Isaac,  Sanderson.

I tend to use JD Grandt and have had no problems  with mismatched unisons 
that I hear frequently on Schaff or Mapes  strings.
That's what I was saying.  They can even be the same scale, and the unisons 
will almost  always come out audibly better from the smaller [admittedly 
more  expensive] independents.

Similarly, Arledge I don’t see a  problem.  I’m more referring to the 
magic of winding versus the  importance of correct scaling.
Maybe it isn't magic, but  their strings do sound better, independent of 
the scale. That's all I was  saying. I may have misunderstood you; I thought 
"everything to do with scaling choices they make and not the  mythical string 
winder" sounded as if you were dismissing the  winder.
 
BD

 
David Love 
www.davidlovepianos.com
 
 
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Subject: Re: [pianotech] Steinway  A Bass String Rescaling

 
In a  message dated 5/22/2009 8:49:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes:

[SNIP]...The  rave reviews you hear about the magic of
string winding from GC or  anybody else and how great their strings sound 
has
everything to do with  scaling choices they make and not the mythical string
winder they have  hiding in the back room.  

David Love
_www.davidlovepianos.com_ (http://www.davidlovepianos.com/) 
 

 
We've been  using GC for quite a while, and my sense is that the pairs are 
more equally  wound than strings from the big houses; therefore pairs match 
each other  better up the partial ladder. Apart from the scaling, I do hear 
cleaner  unisons.
 

 
Bob  D




  
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